Transfering a game from Python to C [closed]

Question

I have a simple game RiceRocks which I want to translate into C programming language not C++,because I know C better. I know only basic C++ such as : loops,control statements, arrays. Where to start? What library should I use?

Answer 1

If you have some knowledge of C and Python, the code shouldn't be hard to port. The only thing missing from the standard C which you need to write the game, is a graphics library. As you can see, the Python implementation uses something called simplegui which creates the window, loads images and then draws them. You can do this fairly easy in C using the SDL library. Here's a set of tutorials to help you get started: http://www.lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/

Oh, and you need to transform the classes into structures. Just place all the members of the class in a C struct, and implement each method as a function that gets a pointer to the struct ( just as the python methods get a reference to self as their first parameter ).

Answer 2

First off, saying "I know C better" is wrong because that doesn't sound right, and C is technically not better because it's missing a lot from C++ and it's not OOP which means classes and objects don't exist in it. Second off if I were you I would learn C or C++ until your great at it and then look into game libraries such as GLFW or GLUT or a C++ game engine like Irrlicht.